Farmer Steelman
Louisville Colonels 1899; Brooklyn Superbas 1900–1901; Philadelphia Athletics 1901–1902
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1899 | 4 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .067 | .176 | .200 | .376 | 15.0 | 3.0 | .194 | -0.1 |
| 1900 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -90.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1901 | 28 | 106 | 91 | 5 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 0 | .264 | .350 | .286 | .635 | 82.6 | 74.6 | .315 | 0.2 |
| 1902 | 10 | 35 | 32 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | .188 | .235 | .219 | .454 | 27.7 | 24.5 | .222 | -0.2 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-08-21 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1901-09-13 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1901-08-31 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1901-09-21 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 1901-09-05 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-04-18 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-19 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-22 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-26 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-26 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.